Flash must die!
I have been using Chrome on my netbook, and most web sites I go to Chrome will annoy me every time “a plugin is required to view this page….” I have to say NO every time, there is no setting to avoid this, or no “NO-TO-ALL” button!! This is starting to get annoying there is not enough screen real estate to have the status bar sliding in and out all the time, and hitting NO all the time is pissing me off. There is a early version of FlashBlock for Chrome, but I dont want to *block* Flash (trick sites into thinking it is there then hiding it), I want to let sites know that Flash is not installed so they will do fallback HTML. (and if a site does not do that, screw them) If I must view a Flash infested site (Hulu, YouTube, etc…) I will run IE.
On Safari I use a nice plugin ClickToFlash, but this makes alot of websites have a bunch of gray boxes, some think this is good thing because it hides ads, I dont want to hide ads.
Chrome needs to add an option not to keep nagging the user to install the same plugin over and over and over…(what if the user does not have the admin password?)
Chrome also needs a “No Flash” option that will ignore Flash all together.
It would be cool if Chrome would convert “some flash” to HTML5 <audio> or <video> tags so the basic need for Flash would be served. ClickToFlash does this and it is great….
Flash is the animated gif of web 2.0, the sooner it dies the better.
SOLUTION
enough complaining! I have finally found a solution, disable all plugins in Chrome, there is no UI option to do this you have to add an option to the command line. Just modify the link you use to run Chrome to look something like this….
“C:...\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe -disable-plugins”
